Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bulb: used chiefly in anatomy in such phrases as
bulbus oculi , the eyeball; bulbus aortæ, the aortic bulb.
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Examples
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It is a result of the swelling of the bulbus glandis or “knot” swelling at the time of ejaculation.
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Adam: u is cerct. ladycat is her. no harblz in site. but her sistr has bulbus volvo. thatz wot teh vet sez.
make sure u stretches first - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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The tie is caused by the swelling of the base of a male's penis, the bulbus glandis, and the constriction of the female's vaginal sphincter muscles around it Fuller and DuBuis, 1962.
Sex and Werewolves 2005
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The tie is caused by the swelling of the base of a male's penis, the bulbus glandis, and the constriction of the female's vaginal sphincter muscles around it Fuller and DuBuis, 1962.
Naschy vs. Naschy 2005
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The tie is caused by the swelling of the base of a male's penis, the bulbus glandis, and the constriction of the female's vaginal sphincter muscles around it Fuller and DuBuis, 1962.
Archive 2005-07-03 2005
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As the two aortae result from a division of the common primary vessel (bulbus arteriosus), an arrest in the growth of the partition would leave them still as one vessel, which (supposing the ventricular septum remained also incomplete) would then arise from a single ventricle. 5th.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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When the bulbus arteriosus divides itself into three parts, the two lateral parts, in becoming connected with the left ventricle, will represent a double ascending systemic aorta, and having the pulmonary artery passing between them to the lungs. 12th.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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The partitioning of the bulbus arteriosus may occur in such a manner as to assign to the two aortae a relative position, the reverse of that which they normally occupy -- the pulmonary aorta springing from the left ventricle and the systemic aorta arising from the right, and giving off from its arch the primary branches in the usual order.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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The bulbus urethrae being also a median structure, is occasionally found notched in the centre, and presenting a bifid appearance.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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They comprise the mons pubis, the labia majora et minora pudendi, the clitoris, the bulbus vestibuli, and the greater vestibular glands.
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